Moreover, our study described the relationship of executive functioning competence to adherence and glycemic control rather than the relationship of clinically significant deficits in executive functioning to nonadherence or glycemic control.
Executive functioning competence might be expected to have a stronger relationship to adherence in older adolescents who have greater levels of responsibility for diabetes management than the younger children who participated in this study.
For this reason, it is possible that the findings would have been even more powerful in a sample of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes with a broader range of ethnic diversity, educational levels, and executive functioning competence.
For example, they suggest that measuring executive functioning competence in ongoing management of type 1 diabetes may be helpful in understanding protective factors associated with better diabetes management and adherence.
(66) and (67), and with regard to the objective function, a competence value is assigned.
In 2007, Büssing et al. [ 115] hypothesized that rapid escalation of high VA-E concentration may impair the function of competence of T lymphocytes in cancer patients.
According to Franco's theory of motivation (4), health worker performance is a function of competence, motivation, and factors including resource availability and other supports.
Based on the recent findings and the observed differences in morphology and function of competence induced pili in S. pneumoniae 8, 9 two different models of DNA uptake have been proposed, which will be discussed below.
The function of competence pili and ComGC was also investigated in the two papers 8, 9. Laurenceau et al. showed that the long type IV pilus structures bound directly to DNA 8.
Group differences in demography, self-reported (RAOS-child, SPD) and measured physical function (motor competence tests) were tested using independent t-test for the parametric data and either Mann Whitney U-test, chi-square test or Fisher's exact test for the non-parametric data.
Epstein & Hundert [ 25] described four functions included in professional competence: cognitive function, integrative function, relational function and affective/moral function.
